Stricter disabled keyword rules?

Changing the description used to work...

[aubs128]

Has anyone else noticed this? When my words used to get a red star, I could just change my ad text and get them back online. Now I have to delete them, ad them back in, wait.. wait... wait... then change the bids, and possible have to do this every few days?

Is there a way around this? (Please don't tell me to raise my CTR, because some highly competitive words will never have higher than 0.5%)

[vibgyor79]

>>> and possible have to do this every few days?

Not if you get to the root of the 'red star' problem and address it. For example, try adding more associated keywords (mine them from the new google keyword suggestion tool) or by using phrase/exact/negative keywords.

>>> Please don't tell me to raise my CTR

Sorry. But you will have to try and raise the CTR. Looks like you are not doing any drastic changes in the ad copy. Try an outrageously different ad copy see if it changes anything.

[aubs128]

the keywords in question were actually in [___] so I don't think that was the problem.

I wrote to them and they told me that even if I delete and add them back in, their system will recognize it as coming from a poorly scoring campaign and punish it accordingly. I've now tried making a new campaign and I'll see how it goes. Other wise I'll just open up another google account.

I do appreciate the advice tho.

[ninhld]

I think this depends on specific keywords, and how your competitors doing with that keywords.
If everyone bidding on that keywords has CTR < 0.5%, I dont think Google will disable it, since that means they got 0 revenue for that keyword, and this is stupid.
Btw, I'm doing adwords for a while, but its always a mysterious black box for me. Sometimes it works like this, but some weeks later it works differently. They change their algorithms constantly. There's nothing predictable with adwords.